Post written by FFHC’s Project Manager Amina Sonko Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a land restoration technique that communities can use to increase their land productivity relatively quickly. In FMNR farmers systematically regrow and manage trees and shrubs from stumps, roots and seeds, using selection, pruning and protection. The regrown trees and shrubs increase … Read more
Welcome to celebrate HarFest, the harvest feast and Growing Change project at the Turntable urban gardening center at Pasila’s old roundhouse, on Saturday 9th of September 12-22. The event is open for all and free of charge. Growing Change is Dodo’s pilot project focusing on food systems, activism and taking action. It’s mainly aimed for … Read more
Join us to plan and build a sustainable city! Dodo’s urban planning and design group has diverse activities and includes also building projects. Many of the projects are also related to urban gardening, but urban planning and design group projects are more focused on design and building instead of nurturing plants. Urban planning and design … Read more
Hi, we’re Isabella & Milly! We’re very happy to be working with Dodo this summer as interns for the Work for Earth project advocating for better conditions for gardeners and farmers 🌱 I’m Milly (left in the photo), originally from France, I have volunteered and worked in different countries before ending up in Finland almost … Read more
Last spring, FEMMA planning organized a workshop for Dodo activists about the future of the Veturitalli area. The Dodo office and the urban farming center Turntable are located in the locomotive stable area. In the workshop, possible dystopias (horror images) and utopias (dreams) were identified. Through them it is possible to concretize which different development … Read more
The 10th anniversary of Pasila Turntable will be celebrated in 2022! The Turntable is an open citizen space and a greenhouse in the middle of Pasila which originated from a Helsinki Design Capital project. On Helsinki Day 12.6. we are celebrating the first decade of the Turntable by opening an urban garden showroom; an educational … Read more
At a work try-out in the Work for Earth project, you get to do hands-on gardening and participate in developing the organization. Are you interested in getting to know an environmental NGO from behind the scenes? Join our innovative gang at our urban garden center in Pasila. The three months of work try-out consist during … Read more
Nitrogen Valley workspace community is organizing a discussion series about nurture as the starting point for social change. Peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar says we are a one-soil community where souls and ecosystems intertwine. The actions we take on ourselves, other people and the soil always cross-affect each other. Therefore, the goal of social, … Read more
In this post, FFHC project manager Pateh Baldeh explains what happens in the beginning of the project, before the actual project activities start. Jiffarong, located in the buffer zone of Kiang West National Park, is the target community of the Tesito project. Although some of the activities, such as forest monitoring, are nation-wide, livelihood activities … Read more
In this post, FFHC project manager Pateh explains how the beneficiaries of the project were chosen When launching a new project, one of the first things to do is to identify project beneficiaries. It is important to include community members in this procedure also to avoid possible conflicts, and also to make sure the community … Read more